Mr. Bodkin then described the meeting held at Grove Street
on the day of the attempt, and the details of the shooting, the Crown ease being that Gardstein on being wounded was assisted from Exchange Buildings back to Grove Street by Dubof and Peters, who were armed with pistols, and that one of them had shot him by mistake when firing at the police officer Choat. The evidence would show that there were some nine or ten persons concerned in the scheme. Of these, Peter the Painter, two men named Levi and Goldstein, and a tall woman whose name was unknown had disappeared; three, Gardstein, Fritz Svaars, and Josef, were dead ; and the rest, according to the prosecution, were before the Court. Evidence was then given by Tocmacoff, a Russian working as a seam-presser, who recognised all the five prisoners. He had met Fritz Svaars and Jacob Peters at the Anarchist club, and had been present at the party at 59 Grove Street on the afternoon of December 16th, where he was playing the mandolin. At the request of the police he had subsequently gone to see Federof, whom he advised to tell all he knew.
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